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Broadchurch thread 2- the one where everyone in MNPD requests a transfer to the traffic division

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EauRouge · 27/01/2015 17:09

Thread number one.

So are we all still watching, despite the mumbling, bad writing and inaccuracies?

I'm not sure what ClaireGwen is up to, but they've written her to like kinky sex which in telly land means she's a bad un.

Last night's highlight for me was DH's genuine confusion over whether subtitles were for the hearing impaired or vision impaired (he may have had a couple of beers). Also sweaty Lee hammering in fence posts.

Has that junior solicitor fella been in something on CBBC?

When does The Missing season 2 start?

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Nerf · 23/02/2015 23:11

Thank you!!
So why did Lisa hate Kate or Pippa or whoever she was watching through the window?
Or is it meant to demonstrate how life has lots of coincidences and unimportant events?

cerealqueen · 23/02/2015 23:17

i still think the original murder was done by the Miller Boy but mist be alone in this, and dad covered for him, but didn't want to pay the ultimate price.

lostoncemore · 23/02/2015 23:18

Watching wire in the blood on ITV3 much better Grin

yes I did find the flower squeeze by the sister at the end a bit disturbing. But Joe still did it.

AnnieHoo · 23/02/2015 23:20

Nerf, think it was to demonstrate that pippa was jealous of lee and kate getting on well.

Nerf · 23/02/2015 23:31

Thanks Annie

Karmaone · 23/02/2015 23:32

Not sure what to make of flower squeeze. Jo didn't deny it when he had a good opportunity to do so. Must be him I suppose.

wowfudge · 23/02/2015 23:36

I thought Claire persuaded Lee to kill Pippa because it was she who had a hold over him, not the other way round. It had been alluded to several times, despite her lying she was scared of him. Claire had to keep reeling him in because she knew she was involved in both Sandbrook murders although she wasn't a killer and hadn't she given evidence against Lee, who then got off, but who could implicate her as revenge? Plus I think he isn't overly bright, although he does a lovely job of putting fence posts in whilst wearing a vest, so she wanted to be sure he wasn't going to cock things up. He felt really guilty for cheating on her and believed she was protecting him by helping him to get rid of the witness who would incriminate him.

Obviously it all started unravelling for Claire when she realised Miller was on to her and that her story didn't stack up. Both women are wives of murderers; Miller couldn't understand why Claire would want anything to do with Lee if he had killed a child.

Kaneda · 23/02/2015 23:38

Lee killing Pippa was taken from Claire's account. I suspect Claire killed Pippa as punishment for Ricky for destroying her and Lee's lives. Claire's pregnancy may have been Ricky's from rohipnol rape, further cause for punishment. Lee still loves Claire so will take the fall. Question I have is why the gate between gardens? Did Lee put that in so he could have an affair with Ricky's wife?

BOFster · 23/02/2015 23:43

I can't see the point in a third series. If the original trial collapsed under procedural errors, God knows what the lawyers will do with the confessions of the Sandbrook killers after they were interviewed by one officer on medical leave and another working as a traffic cop in another county.

wowfudge · 23/02/2015 23:44

Nah, I don't buy that Ricky was being punished for destroying their lives: Claire is a manipulative sociopath playing games with people who thought she was getting away with things as she played the victim and was trying to keep Lee away to protect herself - not from him, but from what he could tell the police about her. She aborted the baby because she'd been shagging both men and didn't know who the father was.

Moanranger · 23/02/2015 23:48

Slightly redeemed itself tonight in tying up loose ends; however interplay between the two barristers - standing in a field? WTF - was not remotely credible.
What can they make a 3rd season about? Oh, wait, an unsolved child murder in Sheffield!

lostoncemore · 23/02/2015 23:51

So why didn't Ricky and Kate(?) ask Lee and Claire to look after Pippa when they went to the wedding?

AWholeLottaNosy · 23/02/2015 23:54

And what about that barn they discovered with all the hooks in that was used to grind down the bones of animals? Was that involved or another red herring...??

BOFster · 23/02/2015 23:59

That was the furnace place where Lee burned the bloodstained floorboards. You know, the industrial smelter that had absolutely zero security and still had the electricity connected months after its owner had gone bankrupt.

AWholeLottaNosy · 24/02/2015 01:06

Ah thanks BOF!

katese11 · 24/02/2015 01:19

I quite enjoyed that...Lots of loose ends tied up for once

and only a few posts left on this thread! nifty!

Duckdeamon · 24/02/2015 06:41

So the conviction was lost partly because of hardy and miller's unprofessional actions, eg hardy allowing Miller to see and injure joe. They went straight from the trial to interview suspects from the other case and once again chances of conviction of Claire at least could be low since hardy hid her for a looong time and possibly shagged her! Miller helped. Yet somehow they are allowed to be chief interviewers!

hollyisalovelyname · 24/02/2015 07:35

Hardy found Pippa's body in the river ?
How?
How long was it in the river ?
Why did they drown her? Was it because she thought Lee killed Lisa.
A lot was going on in that estate that night. Didn't neighbours notice anything ?

PuppyMonkey · 24/02/2015 07:49

Haven't been on these threads but I just want to add that I thought the whole episode was rotten.

The Sandbrook case flashbacks were horrible. Just horrible. I never want to see anyone involved ever again.

And the other case. The proper one... We KNOW Joe killed Daniel - we were shown in series one. The big mystery was why he had decided to plead guilty. I thought he was at least going to be given some lines that might give us some clues about that. But no. Instead he just looked a bit drippy and sheepish and then went to Sheffield while the entire village came out to stand on strategically dramatic positions around the cliff.

Awful.

hackmum · 24/02/2015 07:58

"Plus it's not that easy to kill someone with laminate flooring."

Possibly my favourite comment of the thread...

Holly: they didn't drown Pippa! Claire knocked her out with Rohypnol and then Lee smothered her. Then they disposed of the body.

Was disappointed that my hunch that Lisa killed Pippa and Lee and Claire were covering up for her proved to be untrue. So who exactly was the person Lee knew in France?

I really couldn't understand why Lee killed Pippa. It makes no sense. I know she wrongly thought that Lee had killed Lisa, but come on, who thinks, "I know, I'll solve that problem by killing the witness"?

I still don't understand why Claire initially gave Lee an alibi and then changed her mind - what would she gain from that?

The conversation between the two barristers was utterly ludicrous - suddenly Charlotte Rampling has a change of heart and wants to be best buddies with Marianne Jean-Baptiste.

The best bit was the lynch mob that banished Joe Miller to...Sheffield. Clearly a fate worse than death.

APlaceInTheWinter · 24/02/2015 08:21

I thought the laminate flooring for the Monday job was lying in the living room and that's what Lisa bumped her head on and bled all over. Then Lee put it in the furnace. I didn't think he relaid his own flooring. I'm pretty sure it showed him and Claire cleaning their own floor.

So Claire set off the chain of events that killed Pippa to protect Lee but also to give them something over Ricky because Lee seeing him commit a murder wasn't enough and to get back at Ricky. Then when the pendant was found in Lee's car, she decided to throw him under the bus by revoking her alibi. When the case fell apart Hardy wanted to keep her close and she felt Hardy believing in her innocence was dependent on her seeming scared of Lee so she went along with the witness protection scheme. I did think she might have been lying about Lee suffocating Pippa

Nothing about Claire and Ricky's affair. Nothing about Lee and Kate's affair. No clue as to who was in France.

Nerf · 24/02/2015 08:25

You're not meant to burn laminate flooring as it emits toxins

It's all bollocks isn't it really. Miller shagging some random in Claire's house, searching her phone without a warrant, no checking in or authority to do anything, hardy assaulting Lee and then being dragged up a hill to say sorry by a passing police and

wowfudge · 24/02/2015 08:42

Perhaps it was engineered wood?

rebelfor · 24/02/2015 09:01

What a loada bollocks that was.

I think Lee 'knowing someone in France' was to make Claire jealous, meaning he knew women he'd slept with over there.

Pippa's dad had such a temper he murdered Lisa for calling him a bastard, yet took it like a boss when Claire told him his little girl was dead and her husband was dumping her body as they spoke.

Bollocks.

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